Moderate earthquake, 5.3 mag has occurred near Port Blair in India

A moderate earthquake with magnitude 5.3 (ml/mb) was detected on Friday, 177 km S of Port Blair, India (110 miles). Exact location of event, longitude 92.8822 East, latitude 10.0706 North, depth = 38.36 km. Id of earthquake: us1000bv1g. Event ids that are associated: us1000bv1g. Global time and date of event 22/12/17 / 2017-12-22 15:58:50 / December 22, 2017 @ 3:58 pm UTC/GMT. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 38.36 km (24 miles). The temblor was picked up at 21:58:50 / 9:58 pm (local time epicenter).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days two and in the last 365 days eight earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that have been detected nearby.

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Were you asleep? Was it difficult to stand and/or walk? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your city, home and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 177 km S of Port Blair, India.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5.3 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	92.8822° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	10.0706° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	38.36 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	177km S of Port Blair, India	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-12-22 15:58:50	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-12-22 16:26:29	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	360	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	432	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used		The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	1.581	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.97 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	88	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mb	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us1000bv1g	Id of event.
Event Code	1000bv1g	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us1000bv1g,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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